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Emergency Planning for Maximum Protection

Emergency Planning for Maximum Protection
Author: Richard Gigliotti , Ronald Jason ISBN: 9780409900767 Format: Hardback	$203.15
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Hunger and Public Action

Hunger and Public Action
Author: Jean Drèze (, Delhi School of Economics) , Amartya Sen, FBA (Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge) ISBN: 9780198283652 Format: Paperback	$65.95
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The Justice Broker: Lawyers and Ordinary Litigation

The Justice Broker: Lawyers and Ordinary Litigation...
Author: Herbert M. Kritzer (Professor of Political Science, Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison) ISBN: 9780195061420 Format: Hardback	$179.25
In law, as elsewhere, the ordinary is overshadowed in the popular and academic literature by the dramatic and sensational.... Read More >>

African Food Systems in Crisis: Part Two: Contending with Change

African Food Systems in Crisis: Part Two: Contending...
Author: Rebecca Huss-Ashmore , Solomon H. Katz ISBN: 9782881243073 Format: Hardback	$240.00
Commissioned by the Task Force on African Famine of the American Anthropological Association, this text examines... Read More >>

Burkina-Faso: New life for the Sahel

Burkina-Faso: New life for the Sahel
Author: Robin Sharp ISBN: 9780855981303 Format: Paperback	$52.67
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The Impact of Plague in Tudor and Stuart England

The Impact of Plague in Tudor and Stuart England
Author: Paul Slack (Reader in Modern History and Fellow, Reader in Modern History and Fellow, Exeter College, Oxford) ISBN: 9780198202134 Format: Paperback	$103.95
This is a classic study of a disease which had a profound impact in Tudor and Stuart England. Plague was both a... Read More >>

Handbook of Emergency Management: Programs and Policies Dealing with Major Hazards and Disasters

Handbook of Emergency Management: Programs and Policies...
Author: Ronald J. Hy , William L. Waugh ISBN: 9780313256912 Format: Hardback	$120.00
Following the analyses of specific disaster-types, the book considers the utility of all-hazard programs, such as... Read More >>

Egypt's Other Wars: Epidemics and the Politics of Public Health

Egypt's Other Wars: Epidemics and the Politics of Public...
Author: Nancy Elizabeth Gallagher ISBN: 9780815625070 Format: Hardback	$53.90
Three devastating epidemics swept Egypt in the 1940s, killing thousands of people. This book reconstructs the nation's... Read More >>

Execution by Hunger: The Hidden Holocaust

Execution by Hunger: The Hidden Holocaust
Author: Miron Dolot ISBN: 9780393304169 Format: Paperback	$29.95
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Fission Product Processes In Reactor Accidents

Fission Product Processes In Reactor Accidents
Author: J. T. Rogers , N. Afgan ISBN: 9780891168768 Format: Hardback	$840.00
Recognizing the roles of heat and mass transfer in all aspects of fission-product behavior in sever reactor accidents,... Read More >>

The New Year's Eve Flood on Oahu, Hawaii: December 31, 1987 - January 1, 1988

The New Year's Eve Flood on Oahu, Hawaii: December 31,...
Author: National Research Council , Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences ISBN: 9780309044332 Format: Paperback	$105.60
Documents and analyzes the meteorological conditions leading to torrential rains, the causes and patterns of flooding,... Read More >>

Reluctant Aid or Aiding the Reluctant?: U.S. Food Aid Policy and Ethiopian Famine Relief

Reluctant Aid or Aiding the Reluctant?: U.S. Food Aid...
Author: Steven Varnis ISBN: 9780887383489 Format: Hardback	$92.27
This book undertakes a systematic analysis of responsibilities for the 1983-86 Ethiopian famine and its relief,... Read More >>

Emergency Planning in Case of Nuclear Accident: Technical Aspects - Workshop Proceedings

Emergency Planning in Case of Nuclear Accident: Technical...
Author: Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ISBN: 9789264032910 Format: Paperback	$82.95
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Markets and Famines

Markets and Famines
Author: Martin Ravallion ISBN: 9780198287278 Format: Paperback	$72.95
This book applies some modern methods of economic investigation to issues of the role of markets and governments... Read More >>

Right to Adequate Food as a Human Right

Right to Adequate Food as a Human Right
Author: United Nations ISBN: 9789211540758 Format: Paperback	$13.95
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Escape from Violence: Conflict and the Refugee Crisis in the Developing World

Escape from Violence: Conflict and the Refugee Crisis...
Author: Aristide R. Zolberg (Professor of Political Science, Professor of Political Science, New School for Social Research) , Astri Suhrke (Professor of International Relations, Professor of International Relations, American University) ISBN: 9780195055924 Format: Hardback	$240.95
This comprehensive book examines refugee flows originating in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, and demonstrates... Read More >>

Pianos and Politics in China: Middle-Class Ambitions and the Struggle over Western Music

Pianos and Politics in China: Middle-Class Ambitions...
Author: Richard Curt Kraus (Associate Professor of Political Science, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon) , V. Aubry ISBN: 9780195058369 Format: Hardback	$433.00
During the Cultural Revolution the piano, the musical embodiment of Western culture, became the object of intense... Read More >>

Ireland and the French Revolution

Ireland and the French Revolution
Author: H. Gough , David Dickson ISBN: 9780716524533 Format: Paperback	$104.28
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Still Hungry After All These Years: Food Assistance Policy from Kennedy to Reagan

Still Hungry After All These Years: Food Assistance...
Author: Ardith Maney ISBN: 9780313263279 Format: Hardback	$140.00
In the 1980s, record numbers of Americans have qualified for food stamps and food aid in other forms, despite increasingly... Read More >>

Estimating Losses from Future Earthquakes

Estimating Losses from Future Earthquakes
Author: National Research Council , Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences ISBN: 9780309078184 Format: Paperback	$131.34
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Estimating Losses from Future Earthquakes: Panel Report

Estimating Losses from Future Earthquakes: Panel Report...
Author: National Research Council , Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences ISBN: 9780309078191 Format: Paperback	$64.02
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Hydrology of Disasters: Proceedings of the World Meteorological Organization Technical Conference Held in Geneva, November 1988

Hydrology of Disasters: Proceedings of the World Meteorological...
Author: O Starosolszky , O M Melder ISBN: 9781873936047 Format: Hardback	$83.99
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African Food Systems in Crisis: Part One: Microperspectives

African Food Systems in Crisis: Part One: Microperspectives...
Author: Rebecca Huss-Ashmore , Solomon H. Katz ISBN: 9782881243325 Format: Paperback	$158.27
Part of a project dealing, at the level of local production, with the long-term and ongoing food crisis in Africa.... Read More >>

Social Structure & Disaster

Social Structure & Disaster
Author: Gary A. Kreps ISBN: 9780874133400 Format: Hardback	$145.20
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Volcanic Hazards: Assessment and Monitoring : Symposium 4 on Volcanic Hazards - Prediction and Assessment : International Volcanological Congress : Papers

Volcanic Hazards: Assessment and Monitoring : Symposium...
Author: John H. Latter ISBN: 9783540193371 Format: Hardback	$430.32
The contributions in this book were presented, orally or as posters, at the International Volcanological Congress... Read More >>

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